Quotes About Introspection

Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it's you who must keep it satisfied.

How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

I don't know nothing about that. I'm not the man upstairs.

There was a man who was worthless, and knew he was worthless, and yet however far down he tried to sink his soul, there was always some part of him capable of great action.

Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen.

To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.

The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves.

If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception.

There is no knowing what is in a man's heart.

...never go to look on man till you have first looked on your God.

A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.

The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.